Today's Sports

One season after stepping down as Chiefland High School's football coach, Ulmer will coach again this season at Heritage High School in Brevard County.

Ulmer graduated from nearby Palm Bay, and started his coaching career as an assistant at Melbourne High School in 1999, also in Brevard. He took over the head coaching duties at Melbourne in 2003, and took the Chiefland job in 2006.

The Chiefland 12 and Under All Star team finished its season on a roll, winning the Florida Babe Ruth Small League State Championship Baseball Tournament in Ft. White on June 27.

Chiefland dominated the whole tournament, topping the 14-team, four-day event. The 12U squad played in six games during the event, and won the championship game in a 10-0 rout of the Melrose All-Stars.

The Chiefland Area Athletic Association will be holding football and cheerleading signups every Friday night from 5:00 – 8:00 and Saturday mornings from 9:00 – 2:00 throughout the month of July. We will be at Strickland Park. Ages 7 – 12 may sign up. Contact Billy Hinote at 949-0601 for more information.

The Florida High School Athletic Association has created a new division to oversee competition for private and public school in rural areas. During their June 15 meeting, the FHSAA’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to create a new Rural Division, which would be comprised of high schools in communities designated as rural by the Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development and whose student enrollment is 500 or less. The new rural classification will be li

Michael Beck will not return as Chiefland High School's varsity boys basketball coach next season. Chiefland Principal Bill Tovine said Tuesday that the move comes with changes to the school's In-School Suspension program. Beck served as the school's ISS teacher, and future changes to the program no longer required Beck's services, Tovine said. "We just decided to go in a different direction in that unit," Tovine said.

The Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge Hunter Working Group met at Refuge headquarters last week. They drove from six counties and from as far away as Manatee and Pasco Counties to meet with management about the 2010-2011 hunting season.

It took two days to finish because of a rain delay, but P.K. Yonge defeated Chiefland last Saturday afternoon 11-4 to take the District 2A-5 baseball title.

OK, got that? Now let’s get to the good stuff because the No. 2-seed Indians played the game of the year last Thursday in an 11-10 victory against No. 3 Trenton to advance to the championship game, which we’ll come back to later.